PayPal support comes to Samsung Pay

Samsung has addedPayPal as a payment method in its mobile payments service Samsung Pay. "By adding PayPal to Samsung Pay, we will combine Samsung's ubiquitous payment solution with PayPal's seamless and secure mobile wallet - delivering easy access to a simple, secure payment experience". This partnership will give our customers the ability to pay with mobile nearly anywhere consumers can swipe or tap a credit card, as Samsung Pay works in nearly any in-store POS location in the U.S.

To use the service either for online or offline payments, users must first register their PayPal accounts on Samsung Pay.

Samsung Pay is now fully available in 19 markets, having launched in its native South Korea back in August 2015 before landing in the U.S., China, Spain, and a number of markets across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

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According to March data from PYMNTS.com, Samsung Pay has the highest usage rate of the digital wallets with 4.5% of mobile users.

According to a Boston Retail Partners survey on mobile payments released earlier this year, Apple Pay now has the largest percentage of supporting us merchants, with 36 percent accepting the technology, up from 16 percent the year before. "More than 55 million users and 1.4 million merchants will benefit from this association", MobiKwik Head of Growth Daman Soni said. As the company said today, it processed $102 billion in mobile payment volume and two billion mobile payment transactions a year ago.

PayPal is the largest global payment platform that operates at scale on both the consumer and merchant side of the network. At PayPal, we've seen - and helped enable - a major shift to mobile. In 2014, we worked with Samsung to enable mobile payments with just a fingerprint.